Business school can teach you a number of valuable skills. But to really excel as an HR professional, it’s what you learn about the job by doing the job that proves most valuable, argues Scott Beagrie.

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The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) is largely thought of as a law designed to combat activities of organized crime enterprises, a reasonable conclusion since it was enacted as part of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970. RICO allows for civil actions against persons or entities...

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The Hawaii Fair Employment Practices Act has been amended to provide that it is an unlawful discriminatory practice for any employer to refuse to hire or employ or to bar or discharge from employment, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual in compensation or in the terms, conditions, or privileges of employment of any individual because of the individual's credit history or credit report, unless the information in the individual's credit history or credit report directly relates to a bona fide occupational qualification under the Hawaii Fair Employment Practices Act.

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As a child you learned this from your parents and teachers. It's even a commandment. Honesty is the best policy, most people seem to agree.

But that doesn't mean you follow this advice all the time.

I'm not saying you're a bad person, but if you're anything like me, the occasional half-truth or little white lie makes an occasional appearance. And if you're like many workers, these creative ways of describing the facts often...

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A little after 3 a.m. Dec. 12, Carlos Garcia-Hernandez was booked into Harris County Jail on an aggravated assault charge, accused of slicing a man's nose down to the bone after a disagreement at a birthday party.

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A jury awarded $750,000 to a disabled man who was a resident at Cote De Neige Home for Adults after he was sexually assaulted by a worker at the facility.

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The July 10 Dispatch article "Sweep snares 169 fugitives" reported that Frank Bempong, an employee of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services and a wanted felon, was being arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service. He passed a fingerprint background check when he was hired. That's great. The problem is that in all the years he worked there, he was never rerun through the fingerprinting database.

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PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University researchers have created a model for providing empirical evidence on when an ex-convict has been “clean” long enough to be...

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